Dandhy Laksono

Dandhy Laksono is an Indonesian journalist, director, and author of Reset Indonesia who has had a career spanning more than 26 years. Throughout his career, he has covered various important issues, from banking cases in Jakarta to martial law in Aceh and the 2004 tsunami. In 2009, he founded Watchdoc, which later won the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights and the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2021. In addition to Reset Indonesia, which he co-wrote with three colleagues, Dandhy has also written the books Indonesia for Sale and Jurnalisme Investigasi (Investigative Journalism). His name is widely known through documentary films such as Sexy Killers, Dirty Vote, Dirty Vote 2–O3, and Pesta Babi, which address various social, political, and environmental issues in Indonesia.